Fermat’s Last Theorem: The compelling biography and history of mathematical intellectual endeavour
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The nineteenth-century Norwegian Niels Henrik Abel made his greatest contribution to mathematics at the age of nineteen and died in poverty, just eight years later, also of tuberculosis. Charles Hermite said of him, ‘He has left
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― Tao Teh Ching
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